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Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District - Band ... Marching The Nueces Canyon Band received fourth place at the Texas UIL State Area E Marching Competition in 2005-2006 ... In 2006-2007, Nueces Canyon Received a Division 1 rating at the Region 11 Marching Contest in Hondo ... Concert Nueces Canyon has received sweepstakes 3 years in a row ...

“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)

“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”—Rebecca West (18921983)

“Where beauty is worshipped for beautys sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.”—Aldous Huxley (18941963)

“In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?”—Ruth Benedict (18871948)

“Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.”—C. Wright Mills (19161962)